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Volume 14, Issue 2
August 2005
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Do You Have Questions About Early Childhood Mental Health?
What do infants need for optimal emotional development? How important is building a
strong emotional foundation? Do you find yourself pondering these questions? Well,
you’re not alone. We have found that lots of people have questions about early childhood
mental health. To help answer these questions, MACMH is developing A Guide to Early
Childhood Mental Health. This exciting new publication will identify and explore some of
the many things parents and early childhood professionals can do to ensure that children
establish a healthy emotional foundation. Some of the topics covered in the Guide (due out
this fall) are the basics of brain development, temperament, maternal depression,
supporting healthy emotional development, and descriptions of specific mental health
disorders that can occur during infancy and early childhood.
We are also now scheduling trainings based on this upcoming publication. Each training
session will provide an overview of early childhood emotional development and a brief
description of the mental health disorders that most commonly affect very young children.
More specifically, the training includes information about mental health in general, a list of
key warning signs, a description of the next steps, and a discussion about strategies to help
children learn developmentally appropriate social and emotional skills. The training will also
address the broad range of individual differences in development and emphasize that
although every child has a unique pathway of development, parents and caregivers who can
recognize the early warning signs of a developing mental health disorder will have a better
chance of mitigating the impact of the disorder.
If you are interested in having MACMH present this training to your group, please
contact us at 651-644-7333 or info@macmh.org for more information.
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165 Western Avenue North
Saint Paul, MN 55102
Phone: 651-644-7333
1-800-528-4511
Fax: 651-644-7391
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